Class 2 Blog

What a fantastically busy week we have had once again in class 2! As well as all of our regular lessons, we have also participated in Be Bright Be Seen Day and Bonanza Creative’s carbon monoxide workshop. Both of these initiatives have been really useful in promoting safety awareness in different situations for our pupils as well as being really fun too. Thank-you for all of the fantastic homework responses that have been coming in on Seesaw, it really does help support and consolidate learning. Next week we will be undertaking our art unit so watch out for class 2’s very own art gallery!

Homework:

As class 2 are completing their recount work in English this week, they are becoming experts at recount writing! In your homework book, can you write a recount on something that you do this week. This could be a trip to the park, a night at Beavers, sports events that you have watched or participated in or it could even jut be ‘my Saturday’ where you write about the things you did from getting up to going to bed.

Can you remember the following things in your recount and check your own work to make sure you have included them.

Capital letters and full stops

Past tense verbs written correctly

Time connectives

Events in time order

Noun expansion (adjectives) to add detail to make your work interesting

Correct letter formation and finger spaces

We will really look forward to reading all of your recounts.

This week’s spelling pattern is the sound /o/ represented by the letter ‘a’ after ‘w’ and ‘qu’. Read through these examples and think about the pattern you will need to follow to be able to spell words like these in your independent writing.

Reading record results

This week the children have worked really hard to improve their reading scores at home. As a result, 85% have managed to read three times or more in the last week. This is a great improvement on last week’s score of 75%. Big well done!

Farming fun!

This week, we completed our history unit on farming over the past 100 years. The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about how farming equipment has changed and what impact it has had on farming. As a treat this afternoon, we had a good look through some old documents and photos which tell part of the story of Brandesburton Primary School. The children took great pleasure trying to spot relatives! Can you spot anyone you know in the old photos?

Class 2 have been working so hard on completing their place value maths unit. This week they have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and then in 3s! Getting the hang of following the pattern for 3’s was quite tricky but everyone persevered so well done class 2, we are really proud of you.

In English, everyone has been enthusiastically working on turning their amazing farm visits from last week into exciting recounts. They have been learning about writing in the past tense and using -ed verb endings, adding time connectives to their sentences and using lots of fab noun expansion. We can’t wait to showcase their brilliant work. Watch this space!

On Tuesday it was World Mental Health Day. After a thought provoking assembly, class 2 were encouraged to share different things they could do to make themselves feel better or relax. They certainly had some great ideas including cuddles with family, stroking their puppy, going on a bike ride, playing with friends, drawing, playing outside, going for a walk and eating pizza! You can see some of their brilliant work below.

Homework:

We would like you to consolidate your work on counting on in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s. We started at zero but then progressed to starting at any number in the 2, 5 or 10 times table up to 100. We would like you to do some extra practice on this at home before we move on next week to our addition and subtraction unit. You can use your Purple Mash logon at home to go onto the 2do section and find the following activities

Or, you can try the Topmarks paint the squares activity at the following link.https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares.

You could also try these problem solving sheets. They will also be on Seesaw so you can write over the template or write the answers in your homework book and upload a photograph. Challenge yourself top see how much of the worksheet you can complete.

Spellings:

This week’s spelling at from the Year 2 common exception words list. Please read through the spellings below and practise them and think carefully about the pattern. Could you think of a sentence that uses all ten spelling words? Upload your work to Seesaw if you can. There will also be the spelling quiz on the Purple Mash 2dos if you would like to try it, although we will do the quiz in school as well.

In English, we have finished our character description work and we have moved onto a new genre – recounts. This week we are learning all about what a recount looks like and we have been using a checklist to identify features of different recounts. Eventually the children will be writing recounts about their Key Stage One visit to different farms, linked to our geography curriculum.

We had a fab time utilising our school wildlife garden for our science lesson this week. We were investigating local habitats and minibeasts. The children spotted slugs, wood lice, snails, spiders as well as lots of plants, trees, shrubs and bushes that haven’t started to die down after the Summer yet. When we got back into the classroom, the children were able to use their drawing and colouring skills to map out the wildlife garden.

Homework

This week, the children have received a paper copy of their homework, which they can work on and stick in their homework books! It would be great to see the work they achieve, uploaded to Seesaw.

Big well done for reading this week!

Class 2 were delighted to see their reading score rise from 50% last week to 90% this week. What an improvement!

There is currently a battle for the first class to reach 100% of children home reading, 3 times or more, on 3 consecutive occasions! Can Class 2 join the race next week?!

The farm!

We can’t say a big enough thank you to the 3 families who hosted our farm visits this week. The children had the most amazing time and learned so much. Here are just a few of the photos we took!

We have had lots of photos uploaded to Seesaw showing you reading in your favourite places. You can see some of the photos below. Remember you need your school reading book and log in school EVERY day and the aim is to get three reading signatures each week. Our class percentage for achieving this was quite low compared to other classes in the school last week, hopefully this week it will be better.
This week we enjoyed our PE lesson on Monday when we had the second session of handball. Everyone tried really hard with their throwing, catching and ball control skills. I was also impressed that we are getting quicker at logging onto Purple Mash on the Chrome Books. You should all have a Purple Mash login stuck in the front of your reading logs now so that you can access Purple Mash activities at home. Please try to practise logging on with your username and password so that you will become even speedier! If you can’t access Purple Mash on a device at home, you could still practise your login details by copying them out into your homework book.

Homework

Earlier this week when we started reading our class book ‘The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me’ by Roald Dahl, it mentioned a sweet shop known as a Grubber. We started discussing what our favourite sweets are and what sweets we would sell if we owned a sweet shop. (My favourites were fizzy cola bottles and absolutely ANYTHING chocolatey!) Lots of you wanted to share your ideas and didn’t get chance, so for homework, can you write in your homework book what your favourite sweets are and why? Maybe you could ask mum, dad or your grandparents what their favourites are and write about them too? We would love to see a picture and lots of amazing adjectives to describe the sweets. Do remember to use capital letters and full stops carefully and check your work. Please upload a photo of your work to Seesaw.

Your spelling words for this week are the same as last week in order to consolidate our work on homophones. We will be practising this spelling pattern in school and we will also complete the Purple Mash spelling quiz as part of Monday’s computing lesson. Here’s a reminder of the spelling examples from last week, can you find any more? How are you going to practise your spellings? Are you going to read them aloud or maybe voice record them for Seesaw? Can you write the spelling words in rainbow shapes, bubble writing or even spiky writing? Could you play hangman with your spelling words with another member of your family? Look below to find out who was doing lots of practising last week and some ideas for making spelling practice fun!

Big Thank you!

Thank you to all of the parents and carers that came to join us today for our library reading session. If you couldn’t make it this week but would like to join us next week, we would love to see you at 3pm.

Home reading scores

This week we were below our reading target with only 50% of the class reading 3 times or more at home. Please, Please, Please do your best to read 3 times or more this week as we would love to be nearer the top of the reading record chart!

This week we enjoyed our computing lesson and we are now much quicker at logging on so we can spend longer on the activities. On Tuesday in science we had a great lesson consolidating our work on ‘dead, alive or never alive’ and we collected leaves to stick in our science books. We wrote about the differences between the leaves.

Key Stage One also had a fantastic farm visit on Thursday. Luckily the weather held and the pupils had a brilliant tour. They were able to obtain answers to many of the questions they had generated in their previous lesson. Many thanks to the Richardson family for facilitating this. Next week has two more exciting visits on the agenda, watch this space!

Homework:

On our class reading display we are hanging book covers of all the books we read over the year. You will be able to see this if you are able to come to our Friday library time. We would really like to add some photographs of you all reading a book in your favourite place. Will you get snuggled in bed or make a den? Perhaps you have a favourite blanket and cuddly toy to read with? Please upload your photo to Seesaw and we will post some of them on our class blog next week too. Don’t forget that this will count towards Miss Northen’s weekly reading challenge of reading a minimum of three times each week so remember to ask an adult to sign your reading log.

Your weekly spelling list is below. Try to read through the list and practise spelling as many as you can. Can you find any other homophones when you are doing your reading?

We have had a lovely week this week. We have been generating some wonderful questions, ready for our trip to the farm next week. Here are just a few of the questions the children would like to know…

Do you have animals on the farm?

What technology do you have on your farm and how do you use it?

How do cows make milk and do they drink milk?

How old is your tractor?

What do you grow on your farm?

Do you live on the farm?

We have also worked really hard in maths and English. We have been practising partitioning two digit numbers into tens and ones and have been using a variety of mathematical resources to represent numbers in different ways. We have really enjoyed writing sentences about Gerald the Giraffe, from our class book Giraffes Can’t Dance. We just need to make sure that we all include capital letters and full stops!

These are our spellings for the week! We would be super impressed if you could practise them at home!

Wow what an amazing first day back! Everyone was super keen and enthusiastic today with lots to tell us about their adventures over summer. Class 2 you all looked extremely smart and you have grown so much!
We have planned lots of exciting activities for you over the Autumn term and we can’t wait to get started on our learning journey for this year.
A copy of our class newsletter is posted below but you will all have your own copy sent to you via email as well. Do also make sure you are signed up the the class 2 Seesaw account as we always post lots of photos of what we have been up to in the classroom and love to see photos of what you have been doing out of school too.
Here’s to a fun-filled, exciting year ahead,
Mrs Platten and Mrs Joplin

This year has absolutely flown by and I can’t believe we are about to have the last day of the Summer term. Class 2, you have been an absolute pleasure to teach. You have been enthusiastic, inquisitive, eager to learn, funny, kind and a real team. I am proud of every single one of you and how you have grown over the year, never stop being you. You have made this year an absolutely amazing one and I thank-you for that. I will be watching as you move on up into Key Stage Two and continue your journey. To Bea and Harrie, we all wish you well at your new school where I’m sure you will make lots of friends and have lots of exciting learning opportunities.

Tale care everyone over the Summer and have a fabulous break, you have certainly earned it with all of your hard work,

Mrs Platten x

Last week was sports week and you can see photos of what we got up to at the end of this post. Bowling at the local bowls club and smoothie making were the highlights of our week. We also had rounders and cricket tournaments, bench all in the hall and our non-stop sports day. As it was also health week, we did lots of classroom learning about food groups and a balanced diet. This complemented our work in science on human development. We were also lucky enough to have a little visitor to our classroom…..We had a visit from eight month old baby A and her mum and the class had lots of really interesting questions to ask about what babies can and can’t do.
Homework:

Your homework this week is to complete Miss Northen’s reading challenge by reading at home at least three times this week and recording your reading in your reading log. In addition, this week’s spelling pattern is below.

Last week we really enjoyed a pottery morning with the artist Eleanor. All of Key Stage One were able to paint a tile with a lovely flower design. The tiles have gone to be fired in Eleanor’s kiln and will be back for the children to take home before the end of term.

In maths we have been measuring temperature and will be moving onto the last part of our measure unit which will involve measuring amounts of liquids. In English we have been imagining ourselves in the role of Thomas Farriner, the baker who is usually regarded as responsible for starting the Great Fire of London. The children have been writing first person diary recounts in role and trying to improve their use of descriptive vocabulary.

Homwork:

This week is sports and health week. I would love you to upload any photos of yourselves doing sport out of school to our class Seesaw account.
We will be making smoothies this week too and for the second part of your homework I would like you to design a smoothies recipe with your favourite juice flavour and favourite fruits. You can write a list of ingredients or draw a labelled picture of your creation. Please upload your work to Seesaw.